Squirt wrote:
"But, one of his goals is to learn division. I taught him the basic "it means how many times will x go into y" or "how many 4s does it take to make 12". He got that quickly and did 1 1/2 pages or problems. He now refuses to do any more problems. So, maybe we've met the goal and maybe we haven't. Maybe that's part of the problem - defining what the goals actually mean."
I see the same thing with my DS8. I call him the Concept Kid. He'll start figuring something out, learn it superficially, and is ready to move on. He doesn't want to put in the work to become proficient at it. This alarms me, perhaps unnecessarily. My thinking is generalizing this to when other things become harder - will he always give up and look for the next easy thing to do? Is this a result of lack of challenge? Is this typical 8yr old boy behavior and I'm making too much of it?
